That was my mom's favorite episode. She was a voracious reader, hitting somewhere between 200-300 books in a year. She passed on that love of reading(though not production). While I liked the episode as a kid, I suppose I never thought about it beyond the surface level irony.
As I get older I feel like I have more empathy for the main character. There are so many books I want to read, so many I want to read again, and so many that come out every year. I'll never have enough time. IF I read a book a week for the rest of my life, I'll have approximately enough time to read 1,500 books.
And I find myself thinking, how is 1,500 enough? Aren't there going to be many, many more than 1,500 that I'll want to read?
The answer is emphatically yes, and so I finally understand Henry Bemis.
by Calvin–Hobbes
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A truly haunting episode of television!
This episode scares the shit out of me. Just imagine you finally get a chance to read as much as you want whenever you want. Even if you can’t get through all of it you at least get the freedom to try. And then that freedom is randomly taken away from you. That to me is so creepy.
It’s my favorite episode too <3 i must have watched it a dozen times!
I have about 300 books on my tbr list.
That number was around 250 six months ago.
That means I am adding around 100 books a year to the list.
But I probably only read 30-40 books a year, and I almost always reread something each year.
This is why dnf is totally okay when a book doesn’t vibe.
Too much to do to waste any time.
Just don’t break your glasses, and you’ll be fine!